Friday, October 4, 2013

Reboot Windows 2000, XP, and Vista from a Command Prompt

I came across a situation today where I needed to reboot an ancient XP workstation. However, since I was remoted into it, it did not give me that option in the start menu (at least, I am guessing that is why I did not see the option). At any rate, I was able to Google this and it was a great solution. Open up a command prompt. Type:

SHUTDOWN -r -t 01

Then press Enter. In a dozen years of working in technology, I never had occasion to do this. The great thing about technology is that I am always learning new things =)

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